How to assign a glob expression to a variable in a Bash script?

Question

When the following two lines of code are executed in a bash script, \"ls\" complains that the files don\'t exist:

dirs=/content/{dev01,dev02}
ls -l $dirs
         


        

Answer 1

The issue which no-one has addressed is that the variable assignment makes the difference.

dirs=/content/{dev01,dev02}

expands differently than

echo /content/{dev01,dev02}

The question is how to assign the results of the expansion to dirs

See: How to use Bash substitution in a variable declaration